Bob CollinsBus drivers for DART — Dallas Area Regional Transit — were told not to go downtown when a gunman ambushed police, killing of them.
So Don Washington went downtown to help get people out. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Now that we’ve gotten the whole texting-and-driving problem solved… Read more →
It’s usually a pretty beautiful moment when arts & culture and the world of sports collide.
Last night at ESPN’s ESPY awards, Chance the Rapper proved it again with the concluding moment: a tribute to Muhammad Ali. Read more →
It says something about the state of the nation, perhaps, that the room was packed in Owatonna yesterday when FBI special agent Joseph Malhoit gave a talk to the Steele County Safety Council on how to survive a mass shooting. Read more →
Flooding is causing nightmares for the people of Pine and Kanabec counties in Minnesota.
The only good news is we’ve got new additions to our growing scrapbook of TV reporters who think they have to stand in water to tell you about it.
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‘Almost all of the places you are seeing problems between the police the community are very segregated. You are not seeing these problems as often in more integrated places,’ Orfield tells The Atlantic.
It’s not as if we weren’t warned. Read more →
Garnette Cadogan, from Jamaica, loves to walk. Then he moved to the United States and the joy was diminished. He’s a black man in America.
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New legislation should fix a longtime problem: pilots who don’t seek treatment for various medical conditions because they fear they’ll lose the medical certification required to fly general aviation aircraft. Read more →
Plenty of people were upset that a Canadian group changed the words to the country’s National Anthem before last night’s baseball All Star game. But there seems to be disagreement about why. Read more →
If you’re old enough, perhaps the brouhaha over the Minnesota Lynx wearing T-shirts to comment on social issues reminded you of a similar time when uppity athletes didn’t just shut up and play. Read more →
There’s no real reason for the ‘1st’ sign other than its historical significance. First National Bank was absorbed into a series of mergers years ago. But we tend to fall in love with these sorts of things over time. Read more →
If you make the La Crosse Tribune, Greg Remen gives you a kite. Otherwise, it’s $2. Read more →
Vi Hart, famous — and adored — for her YouTube videos explaining complex math, has a point in her latest video. Even with all of the hours of news coverage, and the barrels of ink in newspapers, the surrounding coverage of rising tensions ignores the complex problems behind complex problems. They’re not doing all that well with the simple context either. Read more →
When a group of mostly black protesters met a group of mostly white protesters in Dallas, it could’ve gone badly. It didn’t. Read more →
The worst job in the Upper Midwest right now? It’s the person responsible for figuring out how to fix Bayfield County’s washed out roads. Read more →